Before that, Persia was mostly Sunni Muslim. There are quite a few ... to have more esoteric interpretations and that some of the caliphs and their allies edited the Quran from its original ...

Democracy and peace are not guaranteed when a dictator falls — sometimes, a country’s fate turns uglier and messier. This does not have to be true of Syria. In a recent address to the nation ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.

For Morocco’s Jews, the festival of Purim, beginning March 13, has contemporary resonance, illustrating the tenuous existence ...

Cleric Mufti Munir Shakir, the founder of the outlawed Lashkar-i-Islam, succumbed to injuries he received from a blast in ...

The leader of Daesh in Iraq and Syria has been killed, Iraq’s prime minister said on Friday, describing him as “one of the ...

We are known as Sunni Ismailis but the Khoja Sunnat Jamat is miniscule ... He alone helped the Ismailis of Salamiya survive the horrors of Baathist Syria. The Fatimid Caliphate founded Al-Azhar ...

Sunni M. Khalid is a veteran of more than 40 years in journalism, having worked in print, radio, television, and web journalism. He has worked for Time magazine, USA TODAY, The Wilmington News-Journal ...

They demand khilafat or a caliphate to replace Bangladesh’s flawed democracy. They also want the Islamic rule and Sharia to extend to the neighbourhood, especially India, and the rest of the world.

Today Islamic date in South Africa is calculated as per the lunar based calendar which consists of 12 Lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days. A Muslim must know about the exact Islamic date today ...

Both fiqa Hanafi Sunni and fiqa Jafria Shia timings are provided for your convenience. However, maintaining a one-minute difference between Karachi Sehri time and Iftar time is recommended. Stay ...